On Dec 24, 2011, at 3:25 AM, Elli Vizcaino wrote: >> here is a test case: >> http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/ev-20111223.html >> and a screen shot - from left: Safari, Opera, Firefox 9: >> http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/ev-20111223.png > > Yes the Little Day font is of normal-weight, it's a free commercial font that > came with only that weight family. I think this is a case of the Mac OS > engine rendering fonts differently, period as it always seems to be the case > w Mac versus Windows OS.
You missed the point: given that the font only has one weight available, you're completely depending on with the browser does with artificial 'bolding'. > The font smoothing or anti alias that it adds to the font is what causes it > to have a heavier appearance even when fonts are specified at normal weight. > I took screen shots of your test case on my Windows 7 machine, on four > different browsers: FF, Opera, Google & Safari for Windows. All fonts got > rendered the identically except for the Little Day font w bold in Safari. Which version of Firefox did you use ? I seem to recall you mentioning Firefox 3.6 in previous threads. Would be nice to know if Firefox 9 gives the same results. Ditto Opera. And fwiw, on Win XP, Safari 5.1 and Firefox 9 render the bolding the same way. The normal weight looks even more pixelated than on Win 7. > If you compare my screenshots side by side with the ones you took off your > Mac you'll see that even at a normal weight the font smoothing/anti aliasing > of Mac causes what is already a very light weigh font to look slightly bold. It doesn't look bold at all. Different then Win 7, sure, but any font will give the same difference. Little Day is quite pixelated in your screenshots. > Even the Candara font at normal weight in Mac are heavier than they are on my > machine. Obviously this is beyond a > pure CSS fix. I will have to resort to programming for this. Why do you need a 'fix' for that ? Fwiw, rendering on Linux Ubuntu 11.10 with Chromium and Firefox is different than on Win 7. Smoother (maybe you'll call it 'bolder'). http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/ev-20111223/chrome_fx-ubuntu11.10.png (Chromium is on top, Fx at the bottom) Philippe -- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
